Reading the Prince of Darkness fawning over Obama is enough to give me a tooth ache:
Look, I love Barack Obama as much as everyone. Actually, I love him more than anyone else in Canada.
I have no less than eight (8) Barack Obama T-shirts. I have Barack Obama buttons (favourite: “Barack And Rollâ€). I have about a dozen Barack Obama posters, many of which are framed and on my walls at home and the office. I have had a Barack Obama web banner on my site for the better part of a year, and have been on the Barack Obama bandwagon for more than two years. When it wasn’t a bandwagon. Last week, when he won the presidency, I cried.
Say what you want about Kinsella, he can pick a sure winner a mile away. Sure wins are all the gets involved in, anyway. Anything else is too scary for him…
Oh my God!
Is this person a teenager with overactive glands? Liking one’s political leader is one thing but blind adoration is quite another.
This is quite scary, indeed.
Kinsella is so besotted with Obama, he may be considering a change of citizenship … just like that other famous Canadian rocker …. Burton Cummings … although I think of Robert Goulet when I look at Warren.
He can come down and live with his messiah. I am going back to Alberta. We may be able to hold off the hoards for a while longer.
It is troublesome that Obama’s support is so much based on charisma, orator skills, etc. with little understanding about what he stands for politically. Many supporters I spoke to know nothing about his political platform and are caught up only in Obamamania. Sad indeed.
So what? He’s in love with his candidate and you’re in love with yours. Get over it.
Kinsella’s enthusiasm for one of the most charismatic political leaders to come along in quite some time is no worse than the right’s blind allegiance to Old Man McCain and Pea Brain Palin.
Devin, what have I said or written to make you conclude I’m “in love” with my candidate? How many t-shirts have I claimed to possess?
Andrew:
I wasn’t speaking about you personally. “Love” for a candidate can be expressed in many ways, including the unmitigated support the right has shown for a truly faulty McCain/Palin ticket.
If Obama’s security ever read that declaration of love and adoration proclaimed by a grown man (at least in body), they might consider putting Kinsella on a watch list.
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remember when kinsella took it upon himself to promote the “10 smartest canadian female bloggers”?
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Kinsella is just an out and out egomaniac and a legend in his own mind. He’s the type that has one small success and then makes it as if it was the highlight of his life and you should never forget it. Can’t stand the guy, don’t read him and could care less about him however this is the type that you need to keep somewhat of an eye on.
BTW I’m banned from making any critical comments on his blowjob blog
He cried????? Hahahahaha. I can just see it! Hahahahaha!!! What an unmitigated idiot.
Charisma – very important in a leader. Maybe Obama can get his supporters to drink some Kool Aid just like that Jim Jones guy. He was renowned for his charisma.
Seriously though, charisma and about $1.50 will get you a coffee at Timmy’s. I’ll take the less charismatic Harper and his superior experience, and economic knowledge over an inexperienced semi marxist idealist any day.
Devin,
“…’Love’ for a candidate can be expressed in many ways, including the unmitigated support the right has shown for a truly faulty McCain/Palin ticket.”
There’s support for a ticket — even reflexive support for a faulty one when it’s the best alternative — and then there’s crying and having tingles up the back of your leg and having umpteen gazillion t-shirts.
Obama won because he was able to convince millions of people — Lying Jackal and, apparently, yourself, included — that “charisma” is all you need to govern effectively.
You know nothing about him save that he makes you cry and shiver, and based on that, you are willing to give him almost unlimited power. Unbelievable.
To me, if the left is represented by idiots such as this and the other drooling yokels at liblogs, then the future looks good, I have recently gone from independent to conservative, because of the bling adoration for the one, I did not find any instances where the one was perticularly good at public speaking unless someone likes to hear duh! huh! every second word, kinsella and liblogs does not give me toothaches, it just reminds me of the stupidity of a small minority trying to pass themselves off as the majority, the last time I am reminded of anything so stupid, is 1933 to 1945, and we all know where that got us. I see such followers at liblogs with idiot such as red tory, and ledaro, for 8 years americans where the enemy of the world, now all is fine, it is not about policies to them, it is about following like a sheep, the one that plays the flute the loudest, and in Canada, it does not work that way, u would believe they would know this, but to my surprise they still think, the best way to get elected is to have a popular leader and forget policies, but thats ok, I hope that people like that represent the left, for a long time, it is hilarious.
Darrell:
Hundreds of thousands of people cried on election night. As the grandson of a Black man who shovelled coal for 14 hours a day in return for little money and even less recognition, I cried too. As the son of a man who was not allowed to enter his elementary school by the same doors as the White kids, I cried too. You can try to dimisnish the significance of last week’s election, but you only make yourself look like a fool when you inject your blind partisanship into the debate.
And maybe you should give Obama a week or two in the White House before you draw conclusions about his ability to govern…
DonnaB:
By the way…you shouldn’t use words that you don’t understand…
Devin, I think there is a significant difference between the feelings you’ve expressed regarding racial equality, and the feelings that Kinsella has expressed towards Obama the man. On the racial point, there is no denying that Obama’s achievement sends a significant and positive message to all people of colour around the world, and on that point I can share your sentiment.
But at some point the issue of race must be put aside, and we must look at individuals based on merit and ideals.
Let me try reversing this, and see how it would play: if the Republicans had nominated a black man and he had won the Presidency, would Kinsella have cried? Would you have cried? If the answer is “no”, then clearly this is about more than simply the colour of someone’s skin, and your ancestry should not be brought into the discussion.
Andrew:
I did not cry simply because Obama is Black. I cried because he is Black, and because of the way he inspires so many people. I did not experience these same feelings when Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton put their names forward for the Presidency.
Would I have felt the same way about a Black Republican nominee? I don’t know… On one hand, I would have had a difficult time not supporting Colin Powell and feeling excited about the prospect of him as President of the US. On the other, I could probably do without Condoleezza Rice.
You don’t have to Black to be inspired by a Black political leader. If seeing hundreds of thousands of people singing and dancing in the streets all over America — FOR AN ELECTION — doesn’t stir some emotion in you then you need to check your heartbeat.
This post, and the commentary that has followed it, is based solely and completely in partisan politics. For whatever reason, you and your readers don’t like Obama and what he stands for. You all would love to have a conservative leader who could capture people’s imaginations and promote your ideals the way he does.
Andrew:
What about this from Dawg’s Blog?
“I sat among the delegates, waiting for the opening ceremonies. I watched endless slides on the big screens at the font of the room: Harper hugging a child, Harper pushing a baby carriage, Harper at the piano, Harper plucking a cello, Harper with his family. Only one shot left him out–four attractive girls wearing T-shirts reading “I’ve got a crush on Harper.” Now, that’s really pushing it.”
Are you as disgusted by that?
Devin, where have I said this behavior towards Obama “disgusts” me? I find it kind of sappy and puzzling, but I would not say I’m disgusted by it.
And no, I’m not disgusted by a photo of four attractive girls wearing T-shirts reading “I’ve got a crush on Harper”. It is pretty clear that the message is meant to be taken lightly.
But Devin, if you feel there is a problem with people expressing irrational adoration for Harper you are welcome to start a thread on your own blog about it. I doubt it will be a very long thread, but have at it if that’s your thing.
Andrew:
Sorry, do “I’ve got a crush on Harper” t-shirts give you a toothache?
I don’t have a problem with people expressing adoration for a political leader, nor do I think doing so is irrational. That is the point here. The more politically engaged people are the better I say.
It’s you that is physically pained by the thought of people being excited about politics…